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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says, I quote it at second hand, "So very straitly did he cause the survey to be made, that there was not a single hyde, nor a yardland of ground, nor it is shameful to say what he thought no shame to do was there an ox or a cow, or a pig passed by, and that was not down in the accounts, and then all these writings were brought to him."
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says, I quote it at second hand, "So very straitly did he cause the survey to be made, that there was not a single hyde, nor a yardland of ground, nor it is shameful to say what he thought no shame to do was there an ox or a cow, or a pig passed by, and that was not down in the accounts, and then all these writings were brought to him."
The principle is so thoroughly taken for granted, that we are a little startled to find it incidentally set forth in so many words in a case of no special importance. A priest named Robert held a single yardland in alms of the King; he became a monk in the monastery of Stow-in-Lindesey, and his yardland became the property of the house.
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